Ellipses should look like this: Some text . . . and then some more text.

But instead they look like this: Some text ...and some more text.

I'm using XeTeX with the mla style from the texlive-humanities Ubuntu package. I should also add that I'm very new to TeX and have almost no idea what I'm doing. The top of my document looks like this:

Good point. I wrote the whole thing in LaTeX form, and then discovered that I could use XeTeX, but now I have all this LaTeX syntax and I'm kicking myself for spending all this time typing ``quotes like this''.
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JonDec 23 '11 at 16:01